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Adam Phillips

“Frustration that is unrecognized, unrepresented, cannot be met or even acknowledged; addiction is always an addiction to frustration (addiction is unformulated frustration, frustration too simply met). What, then, is the relationship, the link, the bond, the affinity between frustration and satisfaction? How do we find ourselves fitting them together or joining them up? There may, for example, be something about frustration that makes it resistant to representation, as though our frustrations are the last thing on earth we want to know about.”

Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
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Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
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